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Electronic Discovery Blog covers information and issues relating to electronic discovery, including case summaries.

Author: Author Larry Westcott is a Towson, Md., attorney and a former information technology manager.

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Recent Posts from Electronic Discovery Blog

Government animus towards plaintiffs leads to adverse inference and other sanctions against government
Plunk v. Village of Elwood, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 42952 (N.D. Ill. May 20, 2009) Plaintiffs Ron Plunk, Sr. and Ron Plunk, Jr. owned a landscaping company which had landscaping contracts with the Village of…
Untimely objections doom motions to compel
Ford Motor Co. v. Edgewood Properties, Inc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 42001 (D.N.J. May 18, 2009) Requestor had originally asked for production in native format, but in producer’s response, it stated that ESI would be…
Court refuses to allow blanket request for electronic information
Henderson v. U.S. Bank, N.A., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 40968 (E.D. Wis. Apr. 29, 2009) Requestor, pursuant to a “request for electronic devices,” asked for all computers used by producers from September, 2007 to the…
Help to advance the science of search in e-discovery
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has organized the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), which is a leading experimental effort aimed at encouraging worldwide research into information retrieval issues. The purpose of the TREC legal…
Sanctions mostly denied where producer is able to implement preservation program
Realnetworks, Inc. v. DVD Copy Control Assn., Inc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 38221 (N.D. Cal. May 5, 2009) Requestor filed spoliation sanctions against producer for producer’s failure to preserve certain information. Among requestor’s claims were…
eMag Solutions announces major enhancements to eMag Vu software suite
eMag Solutions, LLC, has announced the release of enterprise scalable e-mail, de-duplication, reconstitution and ingestion as part of ite eMag Vu hosted enterprise software suite. The new distributed architecture efficiently de-duplicates and processes extremely large…
ATTENTION E-DISCOVERY SERVICE PROVIDERS AND LAW FIRMS - Your chance to make e-discovery history
The Sedona Conference is supporting an initiative started in 2006 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology called the Text Retrieval Conference, or TREC. The TREC 2009 Legal Track is seeking participants from the…
Requestor’s failure to cooperate with producer leads to court order that requestor share costs of production
Surplus Source Group, LLC v. Mid America Engine, Inc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 29260 (E.D. Tex. Apr. 8, 2009) After producer’s initial production was deemed inadequate, on December 10, 2008, producer requested additional information (presumably…
Intentional destruction of emails results in monetary sanctions and possible adverse inference
Technical Sales Associates, Inc. v. Ohio Star Forge Co., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22431 (E.D. Mich. Mar. 19, 2009) Requestor had asked producer to produce emails regarding a dinner meeting in which certain statements germane…
Failure to adopt appropriate information management policies leads to sanctions
Phillip M. Adams & Assoc. L.L.C. v. Dell, Inc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26964 (N.D. Utah. Mar. 27, 2009) One of the subjects of the motion was in connection with defendant producer ASUS’ alleged destruction…